Sleep Study

Well, Sammie was a AWESOME sport if I do say so myself. Actually the nurses told her that she was the start patient of the night! She didn't fight getting the equipment on. The poor girl had a tube up her nose and because she is a mouth breather, she had something dangling from her nose covering her mouth. It actually was the microphone so the Drs could listen to her breathing. It took her a bit longer than normal to fall asleep, but who wouldn't need extra time to fall asleep.

We did normal bed time routine once everything was attached properly. It was lights out. Attached to Sammie's finger was a pulse ox monitor. Unfortunately they glow in the dark. She is a girl that needs complete darkness to fall asleep. So she laid there twirling her finger playing the red glow in the dark ET style finger. When I had gone in the hall to ask if we could do anything about that there was a nurse that came in to fix that and in conversation we ended up getting a white noise machine~which was very helpful. She was almost asleep when her hat fell off causing another nurse to come in and fix it. This was Sammie's last straw. She started to tear up. After the nurse left, she started to tear up. I held her on my lap and she was out within 5 minutes! I could tell by her breathing that she was out. So I laid her down and left the room. I was out of the room by 8:30pm. I went to bed at 10 and I am not sure what time the nurse came in during the night but I believe she only needed to come in once to readjust the wires or stickers. I just rolled back over and went to sleep. I slept pretty well I guess. We were woken up at 5:15. Sammie woke up pretty easily as the nurse opened the door. Then they pricked her finger to run her blood ox. So at 5:30 we were ready to leave~however we didn't know that til 6am. When we got home, I gave Sammie a shower and then I got ready for work. The poor girl was allergic to the sticky tape used. It didn't show up really until 4pm. Nothing some hydrocortizone cream couldn't try to fix. You could see on her face exactly where all the stickers/tape was. It was gone by Sunday. Now we just sit and wait for the results. They should be back within 7-10 business days.